HKBU · AY2026-27 Semester 1

Genius Bar

學習急診站 · Study Clinic

Bring one thing you're stuck on from a course you're taking right now. Leave with a personalised study pack — and a method you can reuse on your own.

Free · HKBU students No prior knowledge required Workshop + walk-in consultation Late September 2026

A clinic, not a lecture 不是講座,是診所

Teachers hand you linear text — slides, chapters, notes. A Genius Bar session turns your own material into the formats your brain can actually use.

You arrive withYou leave with
A chapter you've read twice and still don't get→A one-page concept map of how the ideas fit
A formula you can plug in but can't explain→An explainer + a worked example
A dataset or problem set you can't start→A spreadsheet / code walkthrough, end to end
Exam nerves: "did I actually understand it?"→An AI quiz that asked you questions and found your gaps

Two principles 兩個原則

1 · Make it multimodal 多模態化

One piece of text → five doors. Reading is only one way in:

  • 🗺️ concept map — how the parts relate
  • 🎬 explainer — 60 seconds, spoken
  • ✏️ worked example — numbers on the page
  • ❓ quiz — test yourself
  • 🎮 simulation — feel the trade-offs

2 · Let the AI interview you 讓 AI 反過來問你

The small but powerful move: don't only ask the model questions — have the model ask you.

  • ❌ most people: ask → the model answers
  • ✅ we do: the model asks → you answer → then it teaches

Three or four diagnostic questions turn a generic answer into a personal one.

The method 方法

Every session runs the same five steps. Learn them once, use them for every course.

  1. 1Bring帶材料one real thing you're stuck on
  2. 2Map畫地圖text → visible structure
  3. 3Make換形式rebuild one node in another modality
  4. 4Flip反過來let the AI quiz you; keep the gaps
  5. 5Bank存起來save the pack + a 20-minute plan

Workshops & consultation 工作坊與面談

Two workshops plus a walk-in consultation after each. Bring your own material — laptops welcome.

Turn Your Course Material into Something You Can Learn From

date & time TBC

Teachers hand you linear text. Your brain needs structure and doors. Bring a chapter, a formula or a problem set and turn it into a concept map, an explainer and a quiz you can actually revise from.

Business Maths with AI: Solve It Once, End to End

date & time TBC

Margins, break-even, NPV, regressions, survey data — business courses hide maths inside the prose. Build a working model once, with code or a spreadsheet, and own every step.

Consultation (walk-in)

times TBC

Drop in after each workshop for one-to-one advice and to refine your own study pack. You may also book another time.

Posters 海報

Print-ready A4. Open the PDF to print or share; the PNG is for slides and social.

Genius Bar series poster — meet your genius, both workshops and the walk-in consultation
Series poster
Meet your genius · both workshops
Genius Bar workshop poster — one workshop and the five-step method
Workshop poster
One workshop · the five steps
Scenario & Video Creation Workshop — with Simon Wang and Lucia Luo, 8 Oct 2026, hybrid
Scenario & Video Creation
8 Oct 2026 · Simon + Lucia
Before printing: the workshop dates, times and venue are placeholders (TBC). Tell us the real details and the posters are re-stamped in one command — the design and layout stay identical.

Bring the thing you're stuck on

That's the whole trick.